A Little Playmakers Preview Edition(Hour 2)

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The way we like to around here with the Kitchens open.

Good morning.

And welcome to the Kitchens Open on WFHR for this Monday March 24th.

It's National Cheese Steak Day.

As someone who spent a significant amount of her life in Pennsylvania,

I will tell you that cheese steaks are for us.

The way old fashions are for Wisconsinites.

You just can't seem to find a good one outside of the state.

Now hold on, just a minute here.

I've had steak at restaurants in the area that tastes delicious

with blue cheese crumble on top.

Seth, that's not the cheese steak we're talking about here.

Although I did order a cheese steak at a restaurant

while traveling one time, and they served me a ribeye steak

with a slice of cheese melted on top on a bun.

Well, I mean, technically it was a cheese steak.

Well, technically that's true.

But that's not a true Philadelphia cheese steak.

A Philly cheese steak is made with chopped beef,

sauteed on a griddle with provolone cheese melted into it.

You can have it wet or wet out onions.

Nice.

Which have been grilled on that same griddle.

So they pick up some of that grease and flavor from the beef.

And it's scooped into a hoagie roll.

And yes, they are called hoagie rolls out there.

Okay. All right.

And some places even add a bit of marinara sauce over it.

That's true.

Don't they have those at restaurants in the area?

Well, yes.

But they don't always taste the same thing.

And they're good.

There's something about one that you have in Philadelphia

or the east area of Pennsylvania.

And that just, it adds something special to it.

Now, having been out there with you a few times.

And so, you know, when you ask people,

it's like James in Chicago, you know,

where's the best hot dog or Italian beef or whatever,

you know, because it's famous for that.

In East Pennsylvania, not just Philadelphia,

they all have their own style of cheese steak.

And so what's the name of the place in Bethlehem?

Carl's Corner.

Carl's Corner, which I've been to.

And what's, hey, Beth, what's a little bit different?

What's the special thing that they do there?

I think for them, it's the marinara sauce.

Okay.

So, I mean, there's just something about how they do it.

And they also serve them with parogies.

So, you know, you get your cheese steak,

and you get your parogies, and you sit down,

and you just, and of course, you know,

in true, Philly fashion, you have to lean forward,

because all of the juice is going to drip right out of that one.

Everything can fall out of that one.

I have only had one Philly cheese steak in my life,

in part because growing up, my papa,

who was a semi-driver and traveled this country quite a bit doing that.

One of the things that he would do was,

he would be adamant about food,

and in certain foods, he was only going to eat in certain places.

Sure.

So, unless he was literally in the state of Philadelphia,

he was not having a cheese steak.

Right.

And he wasn't there very often, so that's the only time he would do it.

Exactly.

Every time I go back to that area for meetings or to visit family,

I have to go to Carl's Corner and get myself a cheese steak.

And I think this is one of my, yeah,

I thought about this a little bit overnight after seeing your outline bath.

This is one of my favorite things about this country.

Mm-hmm.

Any, not just, and certain on East Coast,

the West Coast, down south, that kind of thing.

I mean, even just getting down to local levels of things,

state by state, or city by city,

we have these things that make we're proud of,

or that we love, or covet, that this is ours.

And so often it has to do with the type of food,

or the way we serve a food we've talked before about barbecue,

and the battle of the barbecue sauces

and who has the best one, Kansas City, or South Carolina,

or some of these things.

I just love that about it.

There's no wrong answers.

Right.

That's the other part of this, too.

It's that I think is fun.

Right.

And this one is one that I didn't know that much about bath,

but you really did some digging on this.

I did.

I did.

It's kind of like brats are in Wisconsin.

They're what a good, regional broad.

You can have them anywhere you go.

There's just something about having the brats in Wisconsin

that makes it special.

My opinion may be a little, to find a good cheesesteak

in Eastern Pennsylvania, maybe a little bit controversial,

but that just kind of goes along with the sandwich itself.

Okay.

So what exactly do you mean by that?

Well, there are two restaurants right across the street

from each other in Philadelphia,

who both take credit for having the best cheesesteak

in Philadelphia.

One of them is Pats, and the others is Genos,

and they are actually right across the street

from each other.

That's awesome.

That's so good.

There's a great article in the Philadelphia Magazine's website

PhillyMeg.com titled The Oral History of the Cheesesteak.

Everything you need to know about the sandwich,

what we can't live with or without,

in which owners of famous cheesesteak places

in the city were interviewed to tell the story

of how it came about.

So the owner of Pats, King of Stakes, Frank,

Oliveri...

I mean, my Italian expert.

Oliveri.

I'm sorry, what?

Oliveri.

Oliveri.

Tells how the sandwich came to be.

He says, my great-uncle Pat,

that was my grandfather's older brother,

he had a hot dog stand he opened around 1930.

The neighborhood was always busy with one of the country's

first open-air markets.

That's the Italian market, a block away.

The workers would line up, he would sell them hot dogs

off his little cart.

And then one day, Pat wanted something different for lunch.

He was tired of the hot dogs.

So he asked my grandfather to go down to the butcher

and pick up some scraps of meat.

When my grandfather came back,

Pat cooked it up on a hot dog roll.

There, there was a cab driver who saw the sandwich

and said, wow, that looks really great.

Make me one.

Pat told him he only had enough beef for one sandwich,

so they split it.

The cab driver said, that's terrific.

You should stop selling hot dogs and sell these things.

And that was the invention of the steak sandwich.

The cheese really came up in the 1940s

out of Pat's on Ridge Avenue.

So Pat opened up a couple of different restaurants.

The first cheese was a provolone cheese.

Now there's always some controversy as which cheese

you wouldn't have on there.

Provolone to me, that's the true original.

We had a manager named Joe Lorenza or cocky Joe.

He was always drunk completely and he did a waste of our time.

But he was the first person to put cheese on the sandwich.

Wow.

You know, he's telling a story.

It's only a good Philadelphia.

Yeah, right, yeah.

The story.

He goes on to say, by the early 60s,

Uncle Pat had moved out to Los Angeles.

My father, my grandfather, and my cousin Herb, Pat Son,

were operating the business.

Around that time, Geno's came along.

That was 1966.

My grandfather and father bought this location.

This is the one at 9th and Pessayunk from Pat.

What?

Pessayunk.

I love that for a secret word.

It's a good Eastern Pennsylvania.

Yes, it is.

So then it really became a Pat's Geno's thing.

Now, the article also interviews the current owner of Geno's steak,

Joey Vento.

Joey says that guy across the street, he claims he invented the steak sandwich.

I'll give him that.

He claims he invented the whiz.

Okay, I'll give him that.

All I did was come along and perfect it.

Nice.

They're very territorial about this out there.

Yeah, yeah.

He goes on to say, I've never changed my sandwich.

So even with that guy across the street, I think I'm more authentic than he is.

He changed.

His meat's different now.

He's into the chopped meat thing.

But the filly steak needs to be really thinly sliced ribeye.

That's how it started out.

I love how he would even refer to the name.

The guy across the street.

I will say maybe I'm wrong on this one.

I haven't done my homework.

That is such an Italian thing.

Oh, yeah.

I didn't have to look up.

These guys have a bowels in their name.

That's a family, like I do that right away.

That's like a family, like I do.

And Geno's is actually related to the families out there.

And that's kind of his father.

And it says this in the article.

So I really encourage you to go look at this article.

His dad was imprisoned at 836 for killing a guy.

Oh, okay.

So he never saw his dad after his dad was 36.

His dad passed away 10 years later.

So there's a lot of those kind of.

So when they talk about rivalry and ownership,

that is inherent in this kind of relationship.

Amazing.

Oh, very then, you know, talks about how the rivalry really got started.

The real rivalry between Pats and Geno started as something that the media did, I think.

I would say that it was probably as early as 1970, 1973 around there.

We started getting publicity and people would come down here and it was exciting.

And then the whole rocky thing began in 1976.

And the media would say, well, Pats, doing this, what's Geno going to do?

You know, trying to start a fire.

He goes on to say, Joe is arrogant, but not ignorant.

Wow.

The competition really keeps us going.

Jovento is in plankton.

And we are like, Jovento is like plankton.

And we are like crusty crab.

And he's trying to steal our recipe all the time.

No fire employees and then they'll come over here to our place

and we're here for a couple of weeks to find out what we do and how many we're selling

and then quit.

And we play along because it's really no secret.

And we sell 10 to 1.

For everyone's sandwich, he sells I sell 10 more.

Our baker was until recently the same baker.

So I know how many we were selling.

It's so old, like old school rivalry.

It's, you know, it's, oh, I love it.

Too much Joe response.

Oh, was that so?

I say put your money where your mouth is at.

I was a hot dog.

It was a hot dog cart that when you started it and 70 years later,

it still looks like a hot dog cart.

So now we're going to the aesthetics, not just the food.

Oh, no, no, we got to get it.

No, we're getting deep now, yeah.

So the article, like I said, actually interviews several owners

and writers and politicians.

Not only how pets and genos became the destination to visit

when coming to the city and celebrities and politicians who have visited.

It shares about how other places throughout the city

have picked up on this theme to make the sandwich available

no matter where you're visiting in the city.

Nobody gets this more than sports and sports fans

that how much a rising tide raises all boats.

But rivalries are what our country's business is often built on.

Yeah, competition, right?

Yeah.

And look at whether we're talking cookie companies, cracker companies.

I look at the history of any of these businesses or any of these inventions or anything.

And their popularity only rises if there's competition.

Absolutely.

If they're the only game in town, it doesn't ever do that great.

Even just with one source, you need a rivalry.

If you are, this is part of the reason why we're against monopolies.

It's certainly because of the business aspect of it.

And I'm not going to go into details on that one.

But I think that anybody can tell you that competition brings out the best in all of us.

There's nothing.

Any industry we can think of that really doesn't do that with.

And with this, in this story, without these two,

I don't know how they might feel about this.

But without this rivalry, I don't know that Philly Cheestex

are as famous as they become.

Probably not.

Probably not.

You ask people that were around for the Coke Wars, the Coca-Cola Wars,

and Pepsi and Coca-Cola and stuff.

And they will maintain that business made us, and we made each other.

Right.

So much of that.

Look at the rise of the car companies.

And when we were kids, not everybody knew every car company name.

By now, everybody knows every car company name.

Right.

Because of the competition.

It's such a kind of a cool thing.

I also hope that one of my favorite things about competitions and rivalries

is the story of the Bears and the Packers.

And how all these decades and years they were fighting each other and everything.

And well, a lot of fans didn't realize is that George Hallis

and Vince Lombardi were best friends.

And they got this better than anybody.

Wrestling and K-Fab.

And how two wrestlers have the greatest rivalry.

But they're actually like best friends.

And they have coffee together.

And their families have no, do they go on vacations?

I don't know if these two have any of that.

But I would love to know.

I know.

I would love to know if they do.

If a little bit behind the scenes, there's this little like wink, wink, note to note.

Right.

Well, in some of their comments, it sounds very much like they understand

this is part of the game, right?

At least they get what they're supposed to do, right?

Yep.

And because of it, they're both successful.

Right.

And like different products that are out there in sports teams,

you have loyalty to the one that you love.

And that's the same with Pats and Genos.

There are people that would die on the hill of which one is actually there.

I'll never go over there.

Yeah.

In my father's opinion, because he's actually been to these two places,

he says the ones in Bethlehem are just as good.

So, you know, there, but there is something to say,

I got a cheesesteak at the place where it started.

Exactly.

So the next time you're in the Philadelphia area, head on over.

She would be, you know, and let us know.

Let us know which one tastes better and which one you like.

But she liked better.

That's cool.

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And with that, we'll close the kitchen.

Yes.

Very nice.

That was a good one.

That was a good one.

Seth and James here with you.

Hope you're having a great Monday out there.

Big shout out to Beth Habhagger in the kitchen's open.

Nice work, Beth.

Yeah.

That was a lot of fun.

That was a good one.

I love what she gets these topics and I get to learn things.

Oh, it's fabulous.

Yes.

I don't learn much about food.

So I feel like with the kitchen's open segment over the years,

that's one of the ones I generally have learned quite a bit in that segment.

It's a lot of fun.

Very cool.

We're looking forward to diving into some entertainment news.

I do want to touch on a story real quick.

Part A, part B, will be during playmakers today.

Join us from five to six.

We'll get more into it then.

We'll be taking your sports thoughts and feelings.

Certainly talking about our Lady Badgers winning it all.

I'm wearing my Badgers hockey jersey and honor of the Lady Badgers.

We'll talk about that, of course, March Madness.

And we'll talk about one of the kings of the ring, George Foreman.

As you've probably heard by now, boxing legend George Foreman passed away on Friday.

He was 76.

There is no word on the cause of passing.

Well, again, get more into this later.

But certainly if we're going to talk about George Foreman, not just as a boxer,

but an entrepreneur, an inventor, or not an inventor, but somebody who...

Right.

...business man.

Entrepreneurs, I think the perfect word for it.

That's what he was.

And man, was he successful at that?

Yeah.

Oh my gosh.

That's why it's always interesting to me when we lose people to see...

It's not just seeing like other boxers come out and talk about him or something like that.

It's seeing like people that you never expected to come out of the woodworks and talk about him.

And there's been a lot of that with George Foreman.

And every single per...

John Cusack, one of my favorites, you know, him and his family,

a couple blocks away from where my family grew up.

So he's one of my guys.

He came out with a really long post about this.

Like I would have never thought this tour in the same room together.

That's interesting.

But apparently they ran into each other a couple of times.

And Cusack was talking about how nervous he was around Foreman.

Such a larger than life human.

Right.

And how within five seconds George just made you feel like he was anybody else.

Wow.

And just talking.

And just the sweetest human being and everything.

Again, we'll get more into it later during playmakers.

But as a family that...

I mean, Ali is on a Mount Rushmore in my family.

What Muhammad Ali accomplished, a new person he wasn't growing up at a boxing family.

But my father would always go out of his way to talk about guys like Joe Lewis and George Foreman.

And these other guys that really paved the way.

And how...

As much as he liked Ali, he always felt like it was...

It was wrong that George Foreman got turned into a villain.

In the Ali villain thing.

Yeah.

Because Foreman comes out and he's...

He's Tyson before Tyson.

Like nobody had him beating Lewis.

I watched that fight this weekend.

And thank God it's still like we can watch these things.

It's so cool.

I watched the Joe Lewis Foreman fight.

And nobody in the world, including Kosell who's calling the fight, had Foreman in boxing.

You got to earn that.

Yeah.

You got not only in your title shot, you got to earn a second fight.

You got to prove that you could hang with Joe Lewis in order to get that second fight.

Right.

Foreman wasn't waiting.

He took the title.

He took it from...

To the surprise of everybody, right?

I mean...

From him.

And just such a...

Like a design.

Like if you were going to design in a lab, what a boxer should look like.

Young George Foreman, man.

Everybody remembers him as an old man.

Yeah.

It's the young George Foreman that is just incredible to look at.

Yeah.

Like, oh god.

How did anybody ever beat this guy?

You had to use rope adult.

You had to literally invent something new that the ring had never seen before to beat George Foreman.

Because of his build and just the way he could...

I mean...

And you're so right.

It's so much of his skill gets lost in the...

The Foreman...

Oh, we remember him before.

You know, that smiling face and the Foreman grill and all the commercials and all that stuff.

And you've realized if you forget, he was a tremendous boxer.

I mean, he's probably in the upper echelon of all timers.

He's got to be.

Top ten all time.

He's got to be.

Top ten all time.

Yeah.

There's no way you have a boxing list without George Foreman.

I don't care if it's five or ten names.

You have George Foreman on it.

You have a guy like you 70 to 75%.

Maybe even 80% of the audience remembers exactly what you're talking about.

Think about this as a career as a life.

Everybody that first gets to know George Foreman knows him as one of the most intimidating people on the planet.

One of the most...

George Foreman ever smiled in the ring.

Even when he won, he wasn't smiling.

Coming to the ring, coming out of the ring, none of that.

Very serious about what he was doing, right?

Yeah.

The next half of him is nothing but smiling, George.

And George Foreman always named all of his kids George.

Kids George.

Oh, that's fun.

That fun personality, George Foreman.

What a fun guy.

Wild to think of.

You couldn't design that on paper.

You couldn't come out and say, well, this is how my career is going to go.

This is how my life's going to go.

You wouldn't be able to design that.

He had the kind of...

I mean, and that's the one thing he had over like in Ali.

Ali never had that kind of personality that would make him...

I mean, putting away the controversies and all that stuff.

He never had that kind of personality that people were drawn to him.

They were drawn to him because of his fighting.

Yeah.

The way he did it.

And if you liked his causes, you were drawn to him that way.

If not, you hated his guts kind of thing.

I don't...

Who hated George Foreman?

Yeah.

Because he was that kind of personality.

Very outgoing.

I'll get more into it later, but he will be missed in quite a life.

So I actually think it was...

I was saying it last week and everything when I was talking about my top five of actors

and everything that...

You know, Sidney Portier, Carrie Grant.

They're the two best I've ever seen do it.

But as far as our version of that and our generation,

I...

Hills I'll die on.

Denzel Washington is the greatest actor of our generation.

He's my far and away.

It's not even close to me.

I love Tom Hanks.

I think that there's some amazing actor.

Meryl Streep is one of the greatest of all time.

But nobody tops Denzel for me.

It's not even close.

And yet all that being said,

I will never call him a Hollywood actor because he does not want to be called that.

Okay.

So, quote,

What's the definition of a Hollywood actor?

Myself, I'm from Mount Vernon.

So I'm a Mount Vernon actor.

I don't know what Hollywood means.

Denzel considers himself, quote, a stage actor who does film.

It's not the other way around.

He says, quote, I did stage first.

I made my bones on stage.

That's what I'll always be.

I learned how to act on stage, not on film.

Right.

This goes back to Vaudeville.

And seeing those classic early days actors.

And that they didn't learn film acting because there was no film acting.

So the acting you saw was Thesbian theater acting.

And that's why to me,

the greatest acting you'll see is oftentimes in those old school movies and TV shows and everything.

Because it was a different game back then.

Yeah.

What he's talking about here is to me,

the definition of, this isn't difficult.

What makes a good actor and a bad actor?

A good actor can do it on stage.

A good actor can do it with one take.

You can give anybody 20,000 takes and they're going to get that line right eventually.

But a real actor can do it on stage and do it live.

And this kind of goes back to that a little bit.

Right.

You can be a good stage actor and still be a very, very good film,

a television, camera actor, whatever you want to call it.

Oh, yeah.

It's much harder to go the other way.

Yeah.

If you've started out in films, in television,

and you try to do the stage, I mean, the plenty have done it.

I'm not saying you can't, but it's a lot harder to go from that one to the other one.

I would never say Julia Roberts is a bad actor.

She's good.

She's very good at acting on film and TV.

She's proven she can't do it on stage.

You know, so that just kind of, you know, the changes of the film shows that for you.

Right.

Currently on Broadway doing Othello with Jake Gyllenhaal.

They recently broke a Broadway record for a single week box office gross.

There are some clips out there of this.

My God, if you get a chance to watch it.

I'll watch it.

With Shakespeare.

Shakespeare.

No, Othello's one of his greatest plays.

But I get it.

It's Denzel.

It's Jake Gyllenhaal, two tremendous actors.

But still, breaking records with Shakespeare, man.

That's pretty impressive.

I love it.

They do a very interesting version of it, too.

Oh, I'm sure it's awesome.

It's awesome.

I'd be very curious to see that, yes.

Anything to sell.

Oh, man.

And I wanted to touch on something else real quick here, because our friends over at Wisconsin's

Rebs Community Theater currently in the works of building their final main stage production

of the season.

Yeah.

A shout out to the crew and everybody involved with that one.

We also want to shout out our friends over at Century Wisconsin Area Community Theater.

Our friends at Seaweck.

We got a lot of our friends over there that joined us on these airwaves and have joined us

on stage many times, and one of those people that you and I both love and appreciate very

much.

It's your Steve Martin.

Hosts an awesome event.

Final Fridays.

Yes.

Spring into improv.

It's coming up this Friday, 7 o'clock, social 730 will be games.

It's free BYOB.

This is an adult kind of fun thing to do, so you don't want to bring the kids in the

evening.

Yeah, this is not for kids.

Yeah.

But if you love improv, if you love to support local and have a good time, do you want

to participate?

Join them at the shack.

Oh, yes.

And if you want to participate.

Anyone can participate.

Yes.

You want to meet them at the shack at 2952, Minnesota Avenue in Stevens Point.

Be sure to check that out and check out all the cool things that they're doing over

there at Seaweck.org.

Seaweck.org.

Appreciate all of our good friends over there.

Have a great time.

Have a good run.

Make sure to check out their main stage productions as well.

Don Coyote, they're doing over there.

Yeah.

Interesting version too.

Yeah.

I'm curious about that.

I'd like to see that.

We'll take a look at our news and sports and entertainment and all that coming up.

And then we'll be back.

And we're going to talk about want to get, uh, well, actually, uh, two story set.

McDonald's has been, been dethroned as the world's largest fast food chain.

We'll get into that.

Wow.

And would you like to get paid to watch pet movies?

That's coming up for you as well on the morning show.

Welcome back everybody.

Morning show at WFHR.

Seth and James hanging out with you.

A little nostalgic.

This one.

Yeah.

It gets me back there.

We got some fun stuff to get into.

We're going to talk about it.

Would you like to get paid to watch pet movies in a moment?

But I thought this topic was a big one.

And I was a little surprised.

We didn't hear much about this.

McDonald's is no longer the largest restaurant chain in the world.

Wow.

That isn't proud.

I never thought that would happen in my lifetime, for sure.

Same.

Mixou Big Chang is a Chinese bubble tea and ice cream chain with more than 45,000 restaurants worldwide as of September of 2024.

Wow.

While the number of McDonald's restaurants all over the world is around 41,000, according to the statistics of via Chowhound.

Chowhound.

Yes.

The whole reason I'm doing this article is so I could say Chowhound.

Asia-based fast food chain is known for selling soft serve ice cream cones for one yen that's 15 cents.

And drinks are very cheap over it as well.

So there's that.

So that might be part of the help with the locations.

Despite its huge number of locations, 90% of them are in China.

They're also in Indonesia.

There isn't a single location in the United States and yet it is still the biggest one in the world.

Well, that gives you an idea of, you know, I guess the United States isn't the only place that has places like that these days.

And that's interesting.

Although bubble tea in the United States has gotten more popular.

It's starting to spring up here and there.

So yeah.

That's where I wanted to wrap.

Do you think this could get big here?

Do you think that we could see these here, you know, this particular chain or just a chain like it?

I think so.

Selling, you know, bubble.

Because this is not my will.

I don't know much if anything about the bubble drinks that they're serving or whatever and everything.

Some of it sounds interesting, you know, bubble tea in ice cream.

So I love the ice cream.

The ice cream definitely bubble tea is a, it's, I've had it.

It's pretty good.

But it depends, I think, on how much you like tea to begin with.

Yeah, probably.

But interesting story nonetheless.

Let's take a look at this one.

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Are you a movie lover?

Would you like to combine the worlds?

Because this could be a deal for you.

ESA doctors is an organization that helps people with issues related to emotional support animals.

And they want to pay you $1,000 to watch pet movies.

If you're one lucky winner, that is.

If you get the gig, you will watch five movies about pets and their owners for over a 72 hour period.

Then you'll document your reactions and create a blog post about how Hollywood portrays animals effects on mental well-being of humans.

Sounds like they picked the movies, but there are open suggestions.

They did list several possibilities.

Those include all dogs go to heaven, Beethoven, Airbud, the secret life of pets.

Airbud.

Scoob.

And how to train your dragon.

So just real quick side note here.

And I don't make light of any mental health issues.

And I do not make light of mental support animals.

I think that it's one of the cooler things we do in society.

They have so many levels and so many added benefits.

Again, pets be in their force and doing such amazing things.

If it's been an option this whole time to have a dragon as your mental support animal.

Yes.

Yes.

Get in my dragon.

Yes, I want my dragon now.

I would like it to look like toothless from how.

It's a cool dragon man.

I've never seen boy with those movies, but that dragon looks really cool with me.

No, obviously that's a weird, that's something of a weird list because I'm.

And maybe it's for a reason they didn't pick like old Yeller.

Yeah.

Or what's that one?

The more recent one with the dog dies.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

With Owen Wilson.

Yeah, I know the one you're talking about.

But I can't remember the name of the film.

I got wonder why they didn't put those on there.

I can't think of the movie you're talking about.

But I remember distinctly the girl I was dating at the time was a huge like loved animals more than people.

And she wanted to see that movie.

And I just off the cuff said, well, you know how it ends.

I mean, you really want to see it.

You know how it's going to end and everything.

And I was trying to warn her because she really didn't like movies like that.

And she got so mad at me when it ended exactly how I told you it was going to end.

Like, come on.

Wait a minute.

Wait a minute.

The little transference there.

I mean, yeah.

Just how do you nod you?

Yes.

Yes.

When it comes to these movies, I don't like what they're trying to get across.

I like the idea of trying to document and trying to figure out, hey,

one, how does Hollywood portray this?

Do they do a good job of it?

Right.

Do they do an accurate job of it?

And two, just trying to find out more ways that we can, you know,

find benefits to this.

But the movies they chose, how does Air Bud do that?

How does that?

That's a movie about a dog that plays basketball.

You're right.

I'm not sure how that, yeah.

I'm not sure.

I mean, you know, teach the road, I guess.

And maybe they do have a lot more to this than I realize.

I don't know.

So maybe, maybe, well, hey, maybe we learned something now about animals and films.

And maybe all those villains that had the cat or the whatever.

Yes.

Maybe it's just an emotional support animal.

Maybe, you see, maybe villains are just misunderstood.

Maybe that's what it is.

They're wanting to take over the world as just a cry for help.

It's just what it is.

It's a cry for help.

I'm immediately mad.

What was the guy?

I don't remember the villain's name, but Inspector Gadget.

Oh, my God.

The claw.

The claw.

And his cat.

Yeah.

I love the idea of it already.

He ends the conference called Daniel Gadget.

He never got gadget.

No, he never did.

He would pet his cat afterwards.

He needed that cat.

That cat had nothing to do with helping him like take over the world.

No, it was just emotional support animal.

Well, for every time he failed trying to get Inspector Gadget.

That's all it was.

All along.

Dr. Strange, the bond villain.

Yeah, blowfield.

Blowfield.

He had a cat.

Same thing.

I mean, you'd be pretty depressed too.

If every time you beat, tried to beat this guy, they made a movie about it.

I know.

Like every time.

Again.

You never see the bond.

You never see the movies where blowfield wins.

No, no.

It's going to be pretty emotionally taxing.

You need a cat.

You need an animal.

Oh, my goodness.

You've got it, man.

You nailed it.

See, there you go.

I figured it out.

Never thought.

All these years, we just didn't know.

I also, and as much as I love animals, and I came to loving animals later, didn't grow

up with them or anything like that, I was a little surprised.

I've not seen one of these movies.

Really?

I don't know if there's ever been a time we've done a movie subject, and there's not one

of these movies I've seen.

I will say my dad keeps telling me the secret life of pets is hilarious.

He told me I should see that one day.

But I never saw.

That's hard too, though.

I haven't.

I was a little older when that came out.

So I wasn't watching cartoons.

I didn't see Beethoven or Airbud.

I haven't seen Scoob.

And my father loves those how to train your dragon movies, but I've never actually seen

them.

Right.

I know, I know Gerard Butler's the voice of the dad in them, not because I looked it

up, but because as soon as I heard that voice, I was like, you know, you know, I didn't

even have to look it up.

As a side note, they're doing a live action, how to train your dragon.

And it's still Gerard Butler playing the dad.

I thought that was kind of cool.

I thought that was smart.

That's really good.

My son has not watched any of the movies, but he's read all the books.

Oh, cool.

So I don't know if he's interested in seeing the movies or not, but he really enjoyed,

he loved the books.

So.

Yeah.

And now we off air kind of brought up an interesting one here.

You wouldn't even have to pay me to do this.

I was, I'm first off, I'm already watching movies and I would, I would enjoy it.

I think I'd enjoy the process, but I definitely enjoy getting paid to do it.

But you know, if, if, if I see a movie that

has like an animal as one of the lead characters, no, ever since I saw Benji, that was the last

time I was interested in that.

That's not your thing.

You know, when I was a kid.

I wouldn't say I was surprised by this, but I was a little like, oh, okay.

I didn't know that.

Nope.

Not interested.

No.

I'm not free willy.

Nope.

Not interested.

Oh, oh, oh.

Shout out to the best colors in radio, Marley and me.

Marley and me.

That's right.

That's what it was.

Thank you.

Yeah.

It was bugging me.

It couldn't think of which one it was.

Yeah.

That was that movie.

I got, I got a, I got really in trouble for that one.

I don't know.

No fault of your own.

You did trouble for it.

I didn't know it was right.

I didn't.

I, I, I, I'm curious what other people think of this one.

If you would like to apply for these movies.

If you would like to do this, you can go to ESAdoctors.com, ESAdoctors.com.

Very interesting.

I think it would be interesting.

Think it would be interesting.

Well, I'm going to watch all the villains with animals and see if my theory is correct.

I love that theory.

Now, as a side note, and we'll keep this topic going.

If you don't get a chance to call in or text in today, we can, of course, talk about it

another time.

But what is your favorite animal movie?

What is your favorite movie with an animal in it or an animal co-star or a movie about animals?

I think that's a fun topic.

I think that's an interesting one.

I want to hear from you.

I think it's different.

Differentiate between cartoons and live-action.

That's a good way to do it.

Cartoon animals are so, you know, cartoony, it's really not a good comparison there.

That's a good one for me.

That's a good difference maker.

I like that.

I wanted to, real quickly, Seth, remind everybody about this awesome text we have, that we're

doing right now.

We just wrapped up one over a WIRI, a big shout out, and thank you to everybody who helped

us with that.

That was a lot of fun.

We, of course, want to talk about this one too, Seth.

Yes.

The next statewide text-to-win contest that we're doing all through the Civic Media Network.

Of course, we're doing this like ones we've done in the past, but if you're new to the

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Go to your favorite station in this case, WFHR, and text through the app.

That's the only way you can do it, and make sure it's spelled right as well.

They made some really easy words this time, though, so no heavy duty spelling on this one.

Text in that word, during the hour, it's got to be before the end of the hour, and you

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And it's certainly doing something that we've done for a long time here.

Behind the scenes, we have been, Pam and I have been collecting interviews with our local

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I believe we've done about 13, 14 of them, something like that.

We did send messages out to all of the local candidates and the ones that got back to

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And we've been playing some of those interviews for you today.

We will have the remainder of these interviews.

So Midday magazine from four to five today, in part one, you're going to hear from Matt

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And then in part two, Craig Mankha, who is running for Wisconsin's rabbit school board

and Tony Troy Beer, who is running for Wisconsin's rabbit school board.

All right.

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Seth, want to remind everybody as well about a blood drive coming up?

We've got everybody around the corner.